Click on the links below to view literature and resources of interest:

• PCT Wide Suicide Prevention Audit Toolkit
  

A PCT wide suicide prevention audit toolkit is now available that aims:

1. To support Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and other bodies to
   establish a system for suicide audit which fits their local context
2. To support the development of local suicide prevention strategies
3. To produce data which could potentially be merged at regional
   and national levels to identify trends.

Click here for more information.

• Launch of the CSIP High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care

  CSIP launched its High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care on 11 March 2008, underpinned by a complete publication with case study evidence for the changes.

  Designed to help achieve the seven positive outcomes for people using health and social care services set out in the White Paper Our health our care our say and further developed in Putting People First 2007, the HICS for health and social care are based on the following themes:
  
  1. Involvement
  2. dignity and respect
  3. meeting fundamental needs
  4. accessible information and support
  5. partnership working
  6. personalised services
  7. effective commissioning
  8. flexibility/challenge/creativity
  9. inclusion, and
  10. carers as partners in care

  For more information and to download the publication visit www.csip.org.uk/highimpactchangesforhealthandsocialcare

• Measuring health and care outcomes in mental health
  

Communications update - February 2008

Click here to view new communications update.

• Workplace interventions to promote smoking cessation and workplace health promotion: how to help employees stop smoking

  The guidance is for NHS and non-NHS professionals and employers who have a role in – or responsibility for – supporting and encouraging employees who smoke to quit. This includes those working in local authorities and the community, voluntary and private sectors.
  

Workplace interventions to promote smoking cessation - Quick reference guide

Workplace health promotion: how to help employees stop smoking- Full guidance document

• East Anglia Contemporary Psychotherapy would like to offer you the opportunity to take out an EACP Minisite web page(s) to promote your practice and generate referrals on their recently overhauled and greatly improved Website.

  The system will give you the opportunity to be part of a Referrals Network which will assist in raising your profile. Click above link to be taken to the website fore more information.

• CSIP Briefing on Local Government White Paper 'Strong and Prosperous Communities'

The purpose of this briefing is to offer a summary of the key changes proposed by the Department of Communities and Local Government and their significance for local Care Partnership.